Can Infants Get Ptsd?

[Deleted member 1860]

I'm a psychotherapist and I specialise in infant PTSD. There is a common misconception that infants can't get PTSD because the part of the brain that manages explicit memories, the Hippocampus, is not present at birth.

I realize you haven't been on the forum, but as the diagnostic criteria stands, I fail to see exactly how an infant can be diagnosed with PTSD as diagnosis depends on sufferer confirmation of certain symptoms.

Are you saying you are treating older people who were traumatized as infants? This is very different as there is a thing as delayed-onset PTSD.